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Just to let everyone know, I got lucky and found the other DVD with the correct back up on it. Restored those files and I'm back in business. All I can say now is, it's great to have something to listen to on my 20+ minute ride to work on my motorcycle. As for the article about MD being useless... I can only say that he must be another of the iLemming generation as I affectionately call them. You are a victim of marketing and probably have done little to no research concerning the real functionality of a phenomenal product. I only wish Sony was better with their's and could show off the innovations they made years before. Oneybm MZ-NH600D User

I wouldn't call it bad news as much as it is actually expected. I've got family with iPods so very familiar with the DRM fights from system to system as they migrate. But, thanks for the information as, oddly enough, it is very helpful. I have found a wealth of information here so far though. Thanks again, Oneybm MZ-NH600D User

I haven't used my MD in awhile but recently have a small need/want to use it again. I had Vista on my machine before and due to the multiple crashing problems I had from a corrupt boot sector and bad sectors on the drive I hurriedly copied, yes drag and dropped, my oma and omg files from the hard drive to a DVD and burned them. Alas, I had no other choice in order to save that and a lot of other data. Well now that I have a stable machine running XP I chose to reinstall SS 4.3 CP and attach the device. It saw what was on the MD and imported music from my MP3 collection and the aforementioned OMA/OMG files. However, upon attempting to play them back in SS I get a request to connect to the internet to obtain a license to play those files. None of them were purchased, they are all from my personal CD collection, so of course I have no login to the Connect Store and can't create one. I saw a post about using ojbsir.exe, no luck there, and the back up and restore tool will not see them as they were not formerly backed up. It appears I'm going to have to re-rip my disc or does anyone have any other suggestions. Thanks for your help, Oneybm MZ-NH600D user